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PC makers seek safety in services
News A centralised help desk can serve as the computing backbone to thousands of small businesses. The beleaguered PC industry is taking a cue from McDonalds, bundling hardware and services into computing "value meals" that offer better deals for...
[October 9, 2001, 9:08]
KPNQwest struggles back after shutdown - but for how long?
News One major part of the network, the Ebone backbone, had been shut down already, and has since been sold off for a rumoured 25 million euros to European service provider Interoute. The reason for the shutdown is unknown, even to staff at European...
[July 25, 2002, 10:46]
IBM snares bigger bite of storage
News A two terabyte IBM FastT900 storage server is connected to an IBM xSeries server system to act as the information technology backbone for J&B Group's business applications and databases, IBM said. A food distributor and a provider of real estate...
[February 20, 2004, 9:10]
Analysis: A LAN to the rest of the world
News Suddenly, the telco's cries that DSL wouldn't work because of interference, or bad copper lines, or backbone congestion, or lack of standards, are stilled. It's hard to over stress the implications: people who've been involved in trials in the US...
[April 8, 1998, 16:05]
Microsoft issues DNS poisoning advisory
News The group's Infocon Internet infrastructure safety barometer, which tracks the gravity of threats to the Web's backbone, is similar to the much-maligned colour alerts used by the US Department of Homeland Security.
[April 8, 2005, 9:55]
Ex-cybersecurity czar warns that complacency could lead to disaster
News To mitigate the attack's impact, he asked the major Internet backbone providers to black-hole all traffic destined for whitehouse.gov. Richard Clarke has more bad news for IT execs. During his tenure as White House cybersecurity czar, Clarke was...
[October 24, 2003, 12:30]
Amazon cuts 1,300 jobs on Q4 losses
News Seattle customer service has been the backbone of company performance for its whole existence, and other customer service sites have yet to meet the quality and capacity of this office," Barclay said in an email to ZDNet's sister site, CNET News.com.
[January 31, 2001, 7:55]
Australian papers dump print for digital
News All of our backbone today is packet-based, all of our billing systems are capable of doing packet-based billing, all of our application architecture is modular so we can plug and play -- we have open standards so if some guy invents something...
[July 14, 2000, 12:36]
Neptune: Home hub of the future?
News MSN will provide the backbone for hosting Web sites or sharing the video and other multimedia created by users. Currently, Microsoft touts its Windows CE operating system as the solution for appliance devices.
[July 7, 1999, 9:11]
Q&A: Ericsson GPRS chief on security and roaming
News Use of the IPSec protocol on the network backbone insures security on all data security passing through it. ZDNet France caught up with him at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, and talked to him about GPRS roaming and security issues.
[February 22, 2002, 12:43]
MCI WorldCom, Sprint talking merger
News Sprint probably would need to shed its Internet-backbone business as part of the deal, because MCI WorldCom already has such a business -- its UUNet division, which handles Internet traffic for American Online and many of the nation's largest...
[September 24, 1999, 16:38]
Cisco launches $500m router
News The company plans to purchase CRS-1 routers when it is fully ready to begin converging traffic from its different voice and data networks onto a single Internet-based backbone. After four years and $500m in investments, Cisco Systems unveiled its...
[May 26, 2004, 15:35]
A Year Ago: MCI WorldCom, Sprint talking merger
News Sprint probably would need to shed its Internet-backbone business as part of the deal, because MCI WorldCom already has such a business -- its UUNet division, which handles Internet traffic for American Online and many of the nation's largest...
[September 24, 2000, 7:05]
2002: the top ten in IT hype
News Here's why: A typical 1-gigabit backbone runs at below 20 percent utilisation. A big part of technology marketing is based upon pure hyperbole because the industry is selling science, and science happens to be -- for many people -- a nebulous topic.
[December 24, 2002, 8:56]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Since that was the backbone of On Digital's business plan, it must be time for it to return to the drawing-board". The IT press likes nothing more than chewing over the bones of mega-mergers and discussing how this will shape the data-converged...
[August 3, 1998, 9:12]
P2P: Barksdale and Andreessen are back!
News Alongside his successful Loudcloud full-service Web infrastructure company, the Netscape co-founder is an investor in Sigma Networks, an infrastructure provider that links high-speed backbone and metropolitan fiber networks.
[March 6, 2001, 8:40]
EU clashes with Microsoft over Vista features
Talkback At least the EU has some backbone. No matter how good the security system is, the biggest risk is the one sat in front of the keyboard. No security system is bullet proof! Vista is no different.ther e will be holes and someone will find them...
[September 28, 2006, 12:01]
ISP squabble sparks Net traffic jam
News Internet backbone companies invest billions of dollars to build and maintain their networks," said Cable & Wireless spokesman Chad Couser. Unlike the electrical outages plaguing California, which no one wants, this intentional blackout suited the...
[June 7, 2001, 8:24]
Plummeting prices hit Ethernet switch firms
News I think this is the year that we see 10-gigabit deployed in backbone networks," said Johnson. Demand for Ethernet switches is growing, but drastically falling prices are making it difficult for vendors to increase their revenue, according to new...
[February 16, 2004, 11:00]
Multiprotocol label switching makes for mainstream
News Even Sprint, which has always maintained that its pure IP backbone is much simpler than MPLS, is considering MPLS for convergence, although the company cautioned that it is still reviewing its options.
[February 9, 2004, 14:30]
